28 Fisheries. 



40. Here (pointing to the map, south of 

 Newfoundland) are shoals or shallow places, 

 called the banks of Newfoundland, where dur- 

 ing several months in the year you may see 

 hundreds of boats, and thousands of men of dif- 

 ferent nations, engaged in fishing. 



41. Here is a picture of a codfish (drawing 

 or showing it) of the ordinary size, two feet in 

 length. Some are much larger. It is cured by 

 being salted and dried. 



42. This is a drawing of a mackerel, which 

 is about 15 inches in length. It is caught by 

 hook and line, and by a seine (pronounced seen) 

 or net. It is salted in barrels. 



43. Here is a drawing of a larger fish called 

 halibut, which measures from 3 to 6 feet in 

 length. (See p. 30.) This is a drawing of one, 

 three feet in length and one in width. Curi- 

 ously, both its eyes are on the same side of its 

 head. 



44. A very fine fish which comes from the 

 south in the spring, entering the rivers and in- 

 lets of the State's along the Atlantic Coast, 

 is the shad. Those of the Delaware, Hud- 

 son, and Connecticut rivers are celebrated. 



SPELL AND DEFINE Shallow, hundred, thou- 

 sand, salted, dried, caught, seine, halibut, eyes, 

 coast, inlets, Delaware, Hudson, Connecticut. 



